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In addition to making personal changes, CEOs and other senior managers must face the challenge of managing organizational transitions. It is obvious that a company with $100 million in annual revenues is fundamentally different from one with annual sales of $1 million. It follows, then, that as an organization grows, it needs to develop new systems, processes, structures, and ways of managing the business (that is, it needs a different infrastructure). Through our work and research, we have identified a specific progression of infrastructure development that needs to occur to support organizational success. This progression is embedded in a “stages of organizational growth” framework that will be the subject of Chapter 3 and Chapter 4.

Building a sustainably successful business, then, involves understanding and effectively managing these stages of growth. The remainder of this book is intended to provide CEOs and their leadership teams with the information that they need to effectively develop and manage their company's infrastructure.